Interesting conjecture and it shouldn't be too hard to falsify. This precise suggestion with Rydberg matter has not come up before AFAIK, but going back to the early days of cold fusion, it had been suggested that one reason why P&F seemed to have a higher success rate was the elevation of Salt Lake City. which permitted a much larger flux of cosmic rays. Muons are known to catalyze deuterium fusion, no Rydberg matter required.
However (and I do not have a citation) this premise was apparently tested many years ago, and found not to be accurate. Apparently Pd-D cold fusion does not benefit from higher muon flux. That could mean many things - including the lack of deuteron fusion as the relevant explanation for excess heat. From: Stephen Cooke I meant "encounter a 1 GeV muon" but neutrino encounters (with possibly even higher Energy) might also be potentially interesting if they can occur. > Would Rydberg Matter or UDD be more sensitive to muons from cosmic rays or may be even neutrinos? Than ordinary matter? > > Cosmic ray muons have can have high energy for example there are 10000 1 GeV muons per sq meter per second. Their interaction with ordinary matter is very low. I think this has been discussed before but I wonder if there is a higher cross section with Rydberg matter. > > What is the surface area of the Rydberg matter > > 10000 per sq m /s is I think about 864 per sq mm per day, which implies if that if Rydberg matter or UDD is a few 10s micrometers in size it should encounter a neutrino about daily on average. > > The rest would depend on the probability of an encounter actually reacting with the matter,I suppose relativistic effects on the wave functions would also be important at these energies. > > I guess this has come up before so if you have a link let me know.
